>>> import time
>>> import requests
>>> t1 = time.time() ; exec("try: requests.get('http://192.168.99.100/', timeout=1.0)nexcept: pass") ; t2 = time.time() ; t2 - t1
21.00611114501953

>>> import time
>>> import eventlet
>>> requests = eventlet.import_patched('requests')
>>> t1 = time.time() ; exec("try: n  with eventlet.Timeout(1): requests.get('http://192.168.99.100/')nexcept: pass") ; t2 = time.time() ; t2 - t1
21.00276017189026

ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', error(11, 'Resource temporarily unavailable'))